Smoothiemania

Long time no writing, I hope I can justify it by being lazy but the truth is darker than that :P I just lost my 2 phones (one lost and the other decided to stop working) and all the food pictures there gone, so I had to wait until I have the time to re do all the recipes again.

AND since it is beginning of summer I am not  keen in making food that much, I still LOVE food but I find myself more into eating light stuff like oats with nuts or cottage cheese all day with smoothies. so I decided why not share my crazy smoothies recipes, and they are crazy because basically I put in there whatever I have around nothing fancy or precise it just matching things according to their taste.

Powerhouse Smoothie

Today I returned from jogging and I was planning to go later to gym as well, still I didn't feel like eating before the gym but I need to get some energy, so immediately after my jogging (withing the 45 min rang) I had 200g of cottage cheese and made my powerhouse smoothie, and it is crazy because I just put every super food I had in the fridge in there :D good idea to have all nutrients you need with 0 effort.

Ingredients:

1 Banana

1/2 Avocado

5 Strawberries 

1/2 cup diced Pineapple

1 Kiwi

2 tablespoons frozen Spinach 

1 teaspoon Flex seed

1 tablespoon Honey

1/2 cup Ice

Directions:

In strong blender or smoothie maker put all ingredients and blend for 3 mins until completely smooth.

Recipe makes 1 serving of 450g

Calories per serving 417 calories, Saturated fat 4.3g

This recipe good for you because:

• No cholesterol
• Very low in sodium
• High in dietary fiber
• Very high in manganese
• High in vitamin B6
• Very high in vitamin C

Note:

I hate to add milk or yogurt to my smoothies and as well I hate it when it is too thick so I added ice here otherwise usually I freeze my fruits and I don't add  ice at all. In this one I only added the ice because avocado and banana already too thick.

The Hulk smoothie  

This one I stole from my sweet friend Ieva, she was so generous to share her smoothie one morning with me, and I loved it but when I made it myself I added my personal touch by making a slight adjustment to it, she makes it with banana instead of mango which taste really good too but for me I like to add mango because it is very fragrant and overcome the spinach taste completely and I think it adds lovely sweetness to the whole thing which makes it really hard to believe it has spinach in there.

Ingredients:

1 Avocado

1 Kiwi

1/2 cup frozen Mango

1/2 cup frozen Spinach 

1/2 tablespoon Honey

Directions:

In strong blender or smoothie maker put all ingredients and blend until completely smooth.

Recipe makes 1 serving of 400g

Calories per serving 562 calories, Saturated fat 8.3g

This recipe good for you because:

• No cholesterol
• Very low in sodium
• High in dietary fiber
• Very high in vitamin C

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Breakfast smoothie

This one is my all time favorite smoothie for breakfast, when I am not in the mood for food and have no time to eat, I just blend this put it in my gym cup and hit the road and it taste AMAZING and still keep you full all morning.

Ingredients:

1 Avocado

1 cup frozen Strawberries

1/4 cup Oats

1 tablespoon Honey

Directions:

In strong blender or smoothie maker put all ingredients and blend until completely smooth.

Recipe makes 1 serving of 400g

Calories per serving 601 calories, Saturated fat 8.5g

This recipe good for you because:

• No cholesterol
• Very low in sodium
• High in dietary fiber
• Very high in vitamin C

Eggs Waffle

By now, anyone who reads this blog or know me at all knows that I am crazy about waffles, it is just the easiest thing to make and yet taste heavenly. So last week I wanted to eat waffle but not real waffle so I decided to fool my brain by making eggs in waffle iron to just give my brain the illusion it needs to satisfy my craving for a waffle, and guess what it worked pretty well :D

I just made simple olive omelette and cooked in the waffle iron, for some reason the waffle iron makes the eggs rise and become so fluffy so I started to use the iron more often to make omelette.

Egg Waffle - My Little Healthy Twist 

Ingredients:

2 large Eggs

1 teaspoon Milk

50g black Olives

50g green Olives

50g Broccoli seeds

1 Tomato

1 teaspoon Olive oil

Directions:

Pre- heat the waffle iron.

In a bowl mix eggs and milk well, slice half of the green and black olives and add to the egg mixture and pour into the waffle iron, cook for 2 min. Slice tomato transfer eggs to plat and assemble the dish as desired, drizzle with olive oil and serve hot.

This recipe makes 1 serving of 161g

Calories per serving 156 calories, Saturated fat 2.6g

This recipe good for you because:

• High in selenium
• High in Protein 
• Very high in vitamin C

Summer Salad

This lunch officially gonna be my summer lunch for almost everyday, I loved the idea so much that I am making it everyday since last week with slight changes.

Again I mainly stole the recipe from Kornelia my food buddy, I asked her if I can make changes to it and put it in here and she agreed.

I made few changes to this one to even make it healthier and I think I managed to do that, instead of the wheat she used I used whole buckwheat and added few stuff to add more flavor.

Summer Salad - My little Healthy Twist 

Ingredients:

1 cup Buckwheat
1 Avocado
200g Tuna steak
80g Black Olives
40g Green Olives
50g grape tomato
100g Sun-dried Tomato
50g Basil
1 1/2 teaspoon Olive oil or flavored Omega 3 oil



Directions:

Cook the buckwheat as directed in the box, and grill the tuna as desired, chop the olives, tomato and basil to chunks and leave a side. Let buckwheat and Tuna cool down when they are room temperature cut Tuna to small pieces and mix with buckwheat and other ingredients and oil.

Note: I usually add instead of olive oil here my balance oil in Lemon flavor it goes very well with tuna and add tons of Omega 3 and fatty acids but you can add olive oil instead.

Recipe makes 2 servings of 395 g

Calories per serving 499 calories, saturated fat 6.2 g

This recipe good for you because:

• Low in cholesterol
• Low in Sodium
• Low in sugar
• High in niacin
• High in selenium
• High in Omega 3